What are commission jobs and what are the advantages of them?

Answer 1

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Commission jobs pay you on the amount of sales you create. Some jobs pay part commission and part wage where you get a steady wage, but more money if you sell more. The more you sell, the more money you will get as "commission" and that is a major advantage. There is no end to how much you can earn in a commission job.

You can find commission jobs at GetPaidCommission.com

= my .02 cents ==

Commission jobs can help you make bad decisions, as your paycheck is dependent on it. I will never get paid that way again. I prefer to sleep well knowing I didn't screw anyone including myself. There are drawbacks that include not getting paid becasue of various criteria the company set up. Such as because they couldn't finance a customer, collect from a customer, someone else in the company screwed up the job you sold, the company is unethical and doesn't pay you.

I suggest anyone who is considering taking a leap into a commission job to start with a Base + Commission job rather than commission only. It's just too risky to begin with commission only. Once you get accustomed to selling and your comfortable closing and with the entire sales process in general then you're ready for commission only.

Answer 2

When you work on commission you are paid based on what you sell, so if you have a good week, you make good money, if you make a bad week you don't get much (some commission people have a base salary but its usually not much) money. Some commission people work on what's called "a draw" meaning if your sales are returned or the sale does not go through (for lack of financing or the sale is retutned or rejected or various other reasons), then you get a negative sale for that sale. Meaning it counts against you, so you have to sell some more to get rid of that negative sale. It happens a lot for retail sale commission people (which is what I did for years), after the holidays. The nice part of commission is that if you are motivated and a good salesperson you can make really good money and the negative is that sometimes sales are hard to come by and you never have a steady income, from week to week your pay may go up and down, and that's hard for a married or family person.